Municipal Gallery Speyer
The Städtische Galerie Speyer was founded in 2001 by the city of Speyer and is dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art and the organization of exhibitions by deceased artists.
history
The municipal gallery was opened in July 2001 in the gallery building of the Kulturhof Flachsgasse . It is centrally located behind the historic town hall, near the UNESCO World Heritage Site Kaiserdom zu Speyer and in the immediate vicinity of the Judenhof with a mikveh from the 11th century.
The municipal gallery has an exhibition area of 300 m² in total, divided into three rooms. Every two years the exhibition of applicants for the Hans Purrmann Prize for Fine Arts of the City of Speyer is organized. A total of six exhibitions take place each year. The Kunstverein Speyer (founded in 1968), located in the same building, offers the possibility of cooperation in which all rooms of the house are used.
By 2012, the Städtische Galerie hosted almost one hundred exhibitions in which paintings by Marc Chagall , Henri Matisse and Antonio Saura as well as Palatine painters such as Hans Purrmann , Anselm Feuerbach and Max Slevogt were shown. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Clemens Jöckle organized the young Leipzig School's first western exhibition .
Artistic Director
- 2001–2012 Clemens Jöckle
- 2012–2014 Bruno Cloer (Speyer Cultural Office, provisional)
- since 2015 Franz Dudenhöffer (from 2000 to 2016 head of the Kunstverein Speyer)
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2001: Looking back into the future: art from private ownership in Speyer 1950-2000 . In cooperation with the Kunstverein Speyer
- 2001: Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann : A forgotten painter
- 2001: A feast for the eyes: From municipal art holdings I
- 2002: Master of the art of etching
- 2003: Manfred Graef, Berlin: For his 75th birthday
- 2003: Rolf Müller-Landau : On the 100th birthday
- 2004: Johannes Grützke , Biene Feld, Thomas Kleemann
- 2004: Ludwig Meidner : Weltentauschel
- 2005: Brabant Collection
- 2005: Hans-Hendrik Grimmling : Argonauts
- 2006: Antonio Saura
- 2006: Alo Altripp
- 2007: 40 years of the argo group , Speyer
- 2007: Volker Stelzmann : Test arrangements II
- 2008: Albert Weisgerber
- 2009: Close the gap : Photography from Leipzig
- 2010: Frankfurt Artists Society
- 2010: John Heartfield , Klaus Staeck , Horst Haitzinger : Heckling
- 2011: The Palatinate paints for the cathedral
- 2012: Thirty-four to Kleist
- 2012: Exhibition of applicants for the Hans Purrmann Prizes
- 2013: Thomas Buscher : Bavarian Realism between Neo-Gothic and Neo-Baroque
- 2013: Beuysland burned down. Peter Tedden Gallery visits Speyer . In cooperation with the Kunstverein Speyer. I.a. with Andrea Bender , Axel Brandt, Cordula Güdemann , Sybille Kroos, Kirsten Krüger , Thomas Putze , Jan Schüler , Cornelius Völker
- 2014: Nisrek Varhanja: Crossings
- 2014: Josef Doerr (1914–1999): From shadows and images to truth
- 2015: Johannes, Matthias and Clemens M. Strugalla : So close, so far. 3 brothers - 3 positions
- 2015: Wilhelm Loth : The plastic work and drawings
- 2015: 70 years of the Palatinate Secession . In cooperation with the Kunstverein Speyer
- 2016: XYLON and guests: ready for printing. Contemporary woodcut
- 2016: Gloria Brand: Collages
- 2016: Anja Harms, Eberhard Müller-Fries: artist books and book sculptures
- 2016: Bernhard Jäger : paintings, drawings, woodcuts, book art
- 2017: Jan Schüler : Horizont. Portraits and Landscapes
Editing (selection)
- Thirty-four to Kleist . Kleist-Museum , Städtische Galerie Speyer, Edition Timpani, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937155-11-1 .
- Stations 1, 2, 3 . Klaus Fresenius, Städtische Galerie, Speyer 2012, ISBN 978-3-929242-49-2 .
- 70 years of the Palatinate Secession . Catalog for the exhibition from September 20 to November 1, 2015 in connection with a special show in honor of the sculptor Eberhard Linke . Municipal Gallery, Art Association and Palatinate Secession, Speyer 2015
- Beuysland burned down. Peter Tedden Gallery visits Speyer . Städtische Galerie, Kunstverein, Speyer 2013, ISBN 978-3-940985-38-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Städtische Galerie Speyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of the municipal gallery on the website of the city of Speyer